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Manga is a Japanese comic book art form that has become an international phenomenon in recent years. In this new and unique series of episodes, leading Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu engages with history through one of his most popular characters, Professor Munakata.

Professor Tadakusu Munakata is a fictional ethnologist who unravels the mysteries of Japan's past. Since his creation in 1995, the professor's popularity has escalated and today millions of readers in Japan eagerly follow his adventures in the bi-weekly manga magazine Big Comic (published by Shogakukan in Japan).

In this new compilation of ten episodes, we follow Professor Munakata on an exciting adventure when he becomes embroiled in a mysterious criminal plot at the British Museum. Worked in elegant black-and-white graphics, the episodes see the black- cloaked professor encountering mystical challenges and making deductions about some of the Museum's most iconic objects.

The author Hoshino Yukinobu is Japan's leading manga artist. Creator of the extremely popular series Professor Munakata's Case Records (serialised in Big Comic, Shogakukan, since 2004), Hoshino has also created a science-fiction series, 2001 Nights, serialised in Japan (Monthly Super Action, from 1984) and America (by Viz).

Product Code: CMC24650

AUTHOR: Hoshino Yukinobu

NUMBER OF PAGES: 264 pages

FORMAT: Paperback with flaps

Dimension: 240mm x 170mm

SUBTITLE: British Museum

Exhibition: Manga

Illustrations: Line drawings throughout. Colour introduction.

Subject: Poetry & Literature

Weight: 0.67 Kg

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Manga is a Japanese comic book art form that has become an international phenomenon in recent years. In this new and unique series of episodes, leading Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu engages with history through one of his most popular characters, Professor Munakata.

Professor Tadakusu Munakata is a fictional ethnologist who unravels the mysteries of Japan's past. Since his creation in 1995, the professor's popularity has escalated and today millions of readers in Japan eagerly follow his adventures in the bi-weekly manga magazine Big Comic (published by Shogakukan in Japan).

In this new compilation of ten episodes, we follow Professor Munakata on an exciting adventure when he becomes embroiled in a mysterious criminal plot at the British Museum. Worked in elegant black-and-white graphics, the episodes see the black- cloaked professor encountering mystical challenges and making deductions about some of the Museum's most iconic objects.

The author Hoshino Yukinobu is Japan's leading manga artist. Creator of the extremely popular series Professor Munakata's Case Records (serialised in Big Comic, Shogakukan, since 2004), Hoshino has also created a science-fiction series, 2001 Nights, serialised in Japan (Monthly Super Action, from 1984) and America (by Viz).